Improvement in washing-machines



,ASA-E. WORDEN. impfovemen in Washing Machines. No.124649.

Patented Marc h12,1872,

AsA E. WORDEN, OE sMYENA, DELAWARE.

IMPROVEMENT IN WASHING-MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Let-ters Patent No. 124,649, dated March 12, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, AsA E. WORDEN, of Smyrna, county ot Kent and State of Delaware, have invented a new and useful l m provement in VVashing-Machines; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and

exact description of the construction and op! y A and use my invention, I will now proceed t0 describe its construction and Operation.

The frame F, which presses and rubs the clothes, consists simply of two uprights,D and D, two cross-pieces, P and P ,passing through the center of theuprightsD and D', andthrough the ends of the box 0 is a horizontal shaft, S, on which the frame F swings. Attached to the upper part, and on the outside of the uprights D and D', are two weighted rods, R and 1i', made of any suitable material. The weights W andV, which are attached to the ends of the rods, are sufficiently heavy to continue the momentum by pushing at intervals the frame.

Having thus described my invention,what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

The box O and the frame F, with its pivot S, in combination with the vibratin g weighted rods It and It', all arranged as herein shown, and for the purposes fully described.

Intestimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

A. E. WORDEN.

Witnesses ROBERT R. SMITH, GEORGE C. MOINTIRE. 

